[linux-audio-dev] Info required: FLAC on W*****S

[Jens M Andreasen]

Hi!

4-channel support??? Puuhlease, this is sooo 1967ish ... :)

Industri standard these days is 7.1, which by the way is no near perfect
but at least affordable.

with friendly regards // Jens M Andreasen

On tis, 2004-05-18 at 16:24, Alfons Adriaensen wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I'm involved in a (friendly) debate on the surround sound list.
> One the main contributors of this list, Angelo Farina (univ. of
> Parma, Italy) wants to make available some interesting 4-channel
> recordings he recently made. The distribution format has to be
> lossless. I already pointed him to FLAC and the Windows tools 
> available for this format. He tested these and has some objections:
> 
> - The codec does accept WAV, but not WAV-EX files.
> - There seems to be no Windoze player that can handle
>   4 channels FLAC files directly.
> 
> I'd like to exert some gently pressure towards an open source
> format, but then I'll need some answers to these problems.
> So if anyone has some information about this, I'd like to 
> know. All this may be a bit OT, so maybe the best thing is
> to contact me by email.
> 
> TNX,